Ինչ կա-չկա / ne var ne yok / not nation but motion. Contemporary Dance Performance by Duygu Bostancı
Ինչ կա-չկա /
ne var ne yok /
not nation but motion
Contemporary Dance Performance
A performance by Duygu Bostancı
Hrant Dink Foundation fellow at
Institute for Contemporary Art
Through their performance which asks the questions "Is a body also a border?" and "How bodies can come together"
Duygu Bostancı and dancers from Baardia Dance Laboratory will express their thoughts and perceptions about Armenia-Turkey relations, the closed borders and possibilities for the neigbouring nations to come together.
During the performance the audience will have an opportunity to be involved in the performance. At the end of the event, there will be a Q&A session for the participants to ask questions to the dancers.
*** Please click here to reach Duygu Bostancı's personal blog, where she writes about her travel to Armenia and her experiences in Armenia as a fellow from Turkey.
Duygu Bostancı graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University. She practices video-making, photography and contemporary dance.
Her short dance film Simulacrum was screened at SinemaDansAnkara Film Festival in 2014. For already three years, she has been trying to focus on discovering her body and develop movements accordingly.
Currently, Duygu is doing her fellowship at the ICA Yerevan as part of the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme established by the Hrant Dink Foundation.
The Hrant Dink Foundation has established the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme in 2014 with a view to promote cross-border affiliation and cooperation in areas where further exchange of expertise and lasting cooperation is much needed, such as academia, civil society, media, culture and arts, language-learning and law.
15 fellows from Armenia and Turkey are living and following a special program at a host organisation in the neighbouring country.
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